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- An Interview with David Gessner - Bookslut
An Interview with David GessnerBookslut, IL - 50 minutes agoWe also have fiction and poetry. But we’ve been on a real roll recently. Kevin Brockmeier’s essay was just picked up for Best American Short Stories. ...
- Risk-Taking Poet Awarded Jackson Prize - The Associated Press
Risk-Taking Poet Awarded Jackson PrizeThe Associated Press - 6 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) — A poetry professor at the University of Houston has been chosen as the second winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, an award for writers of ...
- ‘Sunshine and Sea Breeze, the Power to Please' theme of 2008 fair - Curry County Reporter
‘Sunshine and Sea Breeze, the Power to Please' theme of 2008 fairCurry County Reporter, OR - 5 hours agoAs for Seikel's winning entry, she said: "When I saw the contest for the fair theme in the paper I was having coffee and it just came to me like poetry. ...
- Antonio Lyons takes floetry to new highs - Dispatch Online
Antonio Lyons takes floetry to new highsDispatch Online, South Africa - Mar 26, 2008It’s poetry on a different level. It’s chilled, thought-provoking and makes you want to appreciate little things we take for granted, like friendship, ...
- Fertile lines (Guardian Unlimited)
Gerrie Fellows turns her gaze inward in her latest collection, charting her painful, precarious, exhausting struggle to conceive a child by IVF. Her poems enact this mesh of science and feeling, the lines threaded through with medical terminology which she balances and buttresses with metaphor and images of fertility - flowers, seasons, the moon - from the natural world.
- Opinions: Ah, the power of "f" - ASU Web Devil
Opinions: Ah, the power of "f"ASU Web Devil, AZ - 2 hours agoIn my sophomore year poetry class, we were told to write a list of words we liked and use them all in a poem. Countless students used "f" simply because ...
- Get ready to go crawling in Camden - This is London
This is LondonGet ready to go crawling in CamdenThis is London, UK - 1 hour agoBloody Awful Poetry: After bouncing around London for the past year spreading their obsession with the best new music everywhere, BAD hosts two days of new ...
- Visit Scotland to enjoy fabulous winter weather - The Herald
Visit Scotland to enjoy fabulous winter weatherThe Herald, UK - 3 hours agoOnce it was purely a single evening of haggis and whisky, now the whole of January can enjoy the Bard's poetry and song. It is evolving into a unique ...
- Witchcraft link to headless stag dressed in a T-shirt - This is Southampton
The gruesome story of a beheaded stag whose carcass was left dressed in a T-shirt has left a community baffled and sickened. Lying at the edge of a field was the body of a fallow deer - its head missing and its carcass fitted with a bloodied white T ...
- Campbellsport Area News & Notes - The Reporter
Campbellsport Area News & NotesThe Reporter, WI - 3 hours agoPoets and poetry connoisseurs are invited to attend an open mic night at 6:30 pm Tuesday, April 22, at the library. Everyone is welcome to listen to the ...
- Poetry, psychology, and the Barack Obama Muslim e-mail - Salon
Poetry, psychology, and the Barack Obama Muslim e-mailSalon - 1 hour ago... "Life is mostly strife," or "Woes unite foes") while others got aphorisms that were substantively the same, but without rhymes ("Life is mostly struggle ...
- Astros broadcaster gets fresh start at 78 - Houston Chronicle
Astros broadcaster gets fresh start at 78Houston Chronicle, United States - May 6, 2008We use words with sound and feeling and try to add history and poetry to make it sound beautiful. We consider a baseball broadcast a romantic project. ...
- Carpentaria: a mother load of mystery - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukCarpentaria: a mother load of mysteryTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIt frequently breaks into a sort of trippy desert vision poetry, oddly reminiscent of peak-era Captain Beefheart. The "ghost-white" undersides of stick-tree ...
- College Restores Artwork by Poet EE Cummings - NPR
College Restores Artwork by Poet EE CummingsNPR - 47 minutes ago"So he would create these in his abstractions, and he created them in his poems as well." In his poem "Buffalo Bill's" for example, Cummings positioned the ...
- Reviews: Thrice, BJM, Constantines, Everclear, Kooks and more (ChartAttack.com)
American Princes earned a dedicated fanbase with their gutterpunk meets indie-wave on 2006's Less And Less. Other People continues in the same vein, combining jagged rhythms and Arcade Fire hoot-alongs with quick tempos and urban Brit smarm. Don't be fooled.
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